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Aspartame: The Thalidomide of the '90s

 

WARNING! NutraSweet is A Neurotoxin! (1994)

 

The THALIDOMIDE of the 90's is ASPARTAME otherwise known as EQUAL,

NUTRASWEET or SPOONFUL. In May, 1992 Flying Safety Magazine explained the

dangers:

 

In pregnancy the effects of aspartame can be passed directly on to the

fetus, even in very small doses. Some people have suffered aspartame

related disorders with doses as small as that carried in a single stick of

chewing gum. This could mean a pilot who drinks diet sodas is more

susceptible to flicker vertigo, or to flicker-induced epileptic activity.

It also means that all pilots are potential victims of sudden memory loss,

dizziness during instrument flight and gradual loss of vision.

 

Some pilots have experienced grand mal seizures in the cockpits of

commercial airline flights and have lost medical certification to fly, with

it their careers. The FDA has received more than 10,000 consumer complaints

on NutraPoison. That's 80 % of all complaints about food additives, yet

they remain comatose and have done nothing to alert the American public who

assume that since it's so highly advertised, it must be safe as mother's

milk. The FDA consistently approves killer drugs as the February '94 OMNI

MAGAZINE reported:

 

If you are using aspartame and have headaches, depression, slurred

speech, loss of memory, fibromyalgia type symptoms, loss of sensation in

lower legs or shooting pains, loss of eqilibrium, vertigo, anxiety attacks,

chronic fatigue, vision loss, floaters, retinal detachment, seizures, heart

palpitations, etc. you have ASPARTAME DISEASE! Many physicians are

diagnosing multiple sclerosis when in reality it is methanol toxicity which

mimics MS. Get off this dangerous drug right away. MS is not a death

sentence, but methanol toxicity is!

 

51% of FDA approved drugs have serious risks and could cause adverse

reactions that lead to severe or permanent disability or death. The Center

for Disease Control, Johns Hopkins University, and the New Jersey School of

Medicine estimate that 80-120,000 Americans are killed by prescription

drugs every year. That this atrocious holocaust persists has everything to

do with money and nothing to do with public health. Monsanto reaps $2

billion/year from the Aspartame toxic bonanza. This can buy a lot of

bureaucrats! Does FDA mean Fatal Drugs Allowed? The FDA works for industry,

not citizens. FDA head Arthur Hayes overruled his own board of inquiry to

approve it then went to work for their public relations firm. Federal

attorney Sam Skinner was assigned to prosecute Searle for fraudulent tests

in their application, but switched sides and went to work for Searle's

lawyers and the case died when the statute of limitations ran out.

 

Honest FDA toxicologist, the late Dr. Adrian Gross, wrote to Senator

Howard Metzenbaum: "The views of the FDA's Center for Food Safety read like

a script written for Abbott & Costello in the sense of their having

perceptions inside-out and upside-down ... FDA may have gone through the

motions ... such a "process" or DANCE represented a farce and a mockery."

 

Aspartame is a molecule composed of three components: aspartic acid,

phenylalanine and methanol. Once ingested the methanol, wood alcohol that

has killed or blinded thousands of skid row drunks, converts into

formaldehyde and formic (Ant Sting Poison). Formaldehyde, a deadly

neurotoxin, is common embalming fluid, a Class A Carcinogen. Phenylalanine

is also neurotoxic when unaccompanied by the other amino acids in proteins.

Aspartic acid causes brain lesions in neuroendocrine disorders in

experimental animals. There are 92 documented symptoms including:

 

Headaches                   Numbness                    Fatigue

Blurred vision              Heart palpitations          Memory loss

Dizziness                     Muscle spasms             Weight gain

Irritability                    Anxiety attacks             Vertigo

Seizures                       Rashes                         Blindness

Tachycardia                  Tinnitus                       Joint Pain

Nausea                         Depression                  Hearing loss

Slurred speech               Loss of taste                Insomnia

 

NutraSweet is in 5,000 foods (0ver 9000 by 1997) and on every restaurant

table for the same reasons tobacco is everywhere: Greed, Addiction and

Profit! The NutraSweet Company and sister Searle whose chemists discovered

aspartame while testing an ulcer drug are owned by Monsanto. If you're

taking other medicine, consider possible reactions you may have. In 1969

Searle approached Dr. Harry Waisman to study the effects of aspartame on

primates. Seven infant monkeys were fed the chemical in milk. One died

after 300 days, 5 others had Grand Mal seizures. Searle deleted these

findings when they submitted this study to the FDA! The best way to

understand NutraSweet is to think of it as a minute dose of nerve gas that

eradicates brain and nerve functions.

 

SOME DISEASES TRIGGERED BY ASPARTAME:

 

Brain tumors and other cancers        Multiple sclerosis      Epilepsy

Fibromyalgia                                Graves Disease         Chronic fatigue syndrome

Epstein Barr                                  Parkinson's             Alzheimer's

Diabetes                              Mental retardation      Lymphoma

Birth defects                         Systemic Lupus         Death!

 

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology surveyed 80 people

who suffered brain seizures after eating or drinking products with

Aspartame. Said the Community Nutrition Institute: "These 80 cases meets

the FDA's own definition of an imminent hazard to the public health, which

requires the FDA to expeditiously remove a product from the market".

 

America is seeing a tremendous increase in seizures. Phenylalanine in

Aspartame lowers the seizure threshold in the brain and blocks serotonin

production. Today our nation is swept by a rage of violence. Researchers

attribute this is part to low brain serotonin levels inducing depression,

rage and paranoia. So President Clinton, Diet Coke in hand, programs

billions of $'s to buy penitentiaries for the paranoid.

 

Fetal tissue cannot tolerate methanol, and Dr. James Bowen calls

NutraSweet instant birth control. The fetal placenta can concentrate

phenylalanine and cause mental retardation. Aspartame tests on animals

produced brain and mammary tumors. No wonder breast cancer is

exponentiating! During Operation Desert Storm truckloads of diet drinks

cooked in the Arabian sun and at 86 degrees Aspartame liberates methanol in

the can! Thousands of service men and women returned home with chronic

fatigue syndrome and weird toxic symptoms!

 

On July 28, 1983 the National Soft Drink Association drafted a 30 page

protest questioning the safety of Aspartame in soft drinks. Then they found

weight-conscious Americans would sip soda all day if it was sugarless, so

they forgot their objections: nor did they tell us that Aspartame makes you

crave carbohydrates and so you gain weight. The formaldehyde stores in fat

cells, particularly on the hips and thighs. Drink diet soda, get fat now,

and later develop seizures, diabetes, blindness, Epstein Barr, MS

depression and death.

 

Similarly, the American Diabetic Association, which receives megafunds

from NutraSweet ignored a 1987 abstract submitted by Dr. H. J. Roberts

(world expert on Aspartame and diabetic specialist) summarizing 58 diabetic

aspartame reactors. He says "I now advise ALL patients with diabetes and

hypoglycemia to avoid Aspartame products." Russell Blaylock, M.D.,

Neurosurgeon in his book: EXCITOTOXINS-THE TASTE THAT KILLS says Aspartame may trigger clinical diabetes! He says that excitotoxins which can be found

in such ingredients as NutraSweet literally stimulate neurons to death,

causing brain damage of varying degrees. Health Press: 1-800-643-2665.

Also, "What really concerns me about aspartame is its association with

brain tumors as well as pancreatic, uterine and ovarian tumors ... and that

so many develop an Alzheimer's-like syndrome with prolonged exposure."

 

NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful are the deadliest toxins in our society because

of their ubiquitous presence in thousands of foods, even children's

vitamins, medicines, Kool Aid and Jell-O and on every restaurant table.

We're dosed with millions of pounds every year! This warning should be on

every Aspartame/NutraSweet(/Equal/Spoonful product: CHEMICAL POISON: KEEP

OUT OF REACH OF HUMANS! GENOCIDAL!

 

H. J. ROBERTS, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.C.C.P.

 

Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, included in Who's Who in America, Who's

Who in the World, Who's Who in Science and Technology, and THE BEST DOCTORS IN THE U.S. Selected by a national medical publication as "The Best Doctor in the U.S."